Customer Reviews

Inside Civil Procedure: What Matters and Why (Inside Series)

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I tried a bunch of the civ pro study aids - they were all ok. But someone showed me this one, and I proceeded to buy it - it is absolutely phenomenal. Leagues above Emmanuel or Glannon. So clear, concise, and covers just about everything you need to know. Definitely worth getting!

Honestly, I learned more from reading this book cover to cover the week before the exam, than I learned from my entire semester in Civil Procedure. This brilliant book breaks down civil procedure into manageable chunks. It even manages to make the material interesting. I'd recommend reading it as a supplement as you cover each new topic throughout the semester, instead of cramming at the end. GET THIS BOOK.

I bought this book early in the semester of Civil Procedure II. Really, I should have bought it at the beginning of the year. If your civ pro section is an entire year, which I imagine it will be, this is a pretty valuable book. The problem in my mind is that it is a little too basic for what I needed. It definitely helps you get a solid understanding of the topic, but going to class and reading the FRCP can accomplish the same thing. Either way, its a nice back up supplement. If you want to master the topic, this book probably isn't the one to go with because it seems to baby you along at times.

This is definitely one of the better books out there for civil procedure. Made a complex topic and a confusing textbook understandable, helped me be able to answers questions in class I never could have gotten if I'd only done the assigned reading.

Would have been nice if it covered more specific cases, the book sticks with principles and doesn't talk about case law much other than the biggest cases, but this is not a terrible fault since it is easy to find case commentary on Westlaw or Lexis but harder to find concepts explained in simple terms.

After reading this supplement I was tempted to go back and re-rate all of the other supplements I'd rated because none of them are as good as this one. Most of the semester I relied on the Civ Pro E&E but a couple days before my Civ Pro I exam I ordered this book and was pleasantly surprised. It gave a good breakdown of all the key concepts, highlighting the concepts which must students struggle with (or get wrong) on exams and it didn't do so in an overly wordy way like the E&Es. However, I will add that by the time I bought this book I had outlined my entire course, and read other supplements. I found that this book was great for saying all of the things which the other supplements didn't. For instance in explaining venue it provided the answer that most students gave, why it was wrong and what's correct. And, It didn't need a stupidly long hypo to do it.

A different reviewer gave the supplement four stars because it was "basic" - I'll concede that you won't be able to call yourself "professor" after reading this - I do think that this is a good tool to use after you've at least done some studying. You're going to miss the intricacies of all the rules of you just rely on supplements anyway. However, unlike the other reviewer, my Civil Procedure class is a full year & I didn't read the chapters which weren't covered in the first semester of the course so I can't comment the book's entirety.